Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) are plans regulated by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and designed to allow employees invest in the stock of their employer. The shareholder participants/employees as well as the sponsoring company generally receive tax benefits through the use of the
plan. And while they are generally touted as designed to promote employees’ interest and efforts in maximizing the value of the company for the benefit both employer and employees, ESOPs are often used as a method of corporate finance by the sponsoring company.
This webinar discusses the potential strategies involving, and benefits and consequences to, the sponsoring corporation and employees in implementation and use of an ESOP, and highlights these aspects of tax-qualified ESOPs used in the United States by comparisons to other form of employee ownership in the U.S. and abroad.
This webinar is delivered in Plain English, understandable to you even if you do not have a background in the subject. It brings you into an engaging, even sometimes humorous, conversation designed to entertain as it teaches. And, it is specifically designed to be viewed as a stand-alone webinar, meaning that you do not have to view the other webinars in the series to get a lot out of it.
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